TY - JOUR AU - Ojo, Olabisi AU - Sheehan, Stella AU - Corcoran, G. Daniel AU - Okker, Melissa AU - Gover, Karen AU - Nikolayevsky, Vladyslav AU - Brown, Timothy AU - Dale, James AU - Gordon, Stephen V. AU - Drobniewski, Francis AU - Prentice, Michael B. T1 - Mycobacterium bovis Strains Causing Smear-Positive Human Tuberculosis, Southwest Ireland T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2008 VL - 14 IS - 12 SP - 1931 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Mycobacterium bovis caused 3% of human tuberculosis cases in southwest Ireland during 1998–2006. Of 11 M. bovis strains genotyped, 9 belonged to common animal spoligotypes. Seven strains were from sputum and potential sources of human-centered disease transmission. Ten-locus variable-number tandem repeat typing gave unique strain profiles and would detect disease outbreaks. KW - Mycobacterium bovis KW - tuberculosis KW - molecular epidemiology KW - respiratory tract infections KW - dispatch KW - Ireland DO - 10.3201/eid1412.071135 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/12/07-1135_article ER - End of Reference